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People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.
Cate Blanchett
Australians
Entertainers
Events
Great
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When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.
Cate Blanchett
Audience
Course
Courting
Different
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He who considers too much will perform little.
Friedrich Schiller
Considers
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Little
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Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare
Desire
Many
Years
Outlive
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In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.
Frank Oz
Against
Order
Performer
Play
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I really don't do karaoke because it becomes a vocal performance rather than fun, like, 'Let's just sing this song and be silly.' It's not fun for me.
Mariah Carey
Because
Becomes
Fun
Just
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Edgar Cayce
Soul
Enters
Mission
Perform
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But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.
Imran Khan
Day
Down
How
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I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.
Irvine Welsh
Almost
Beat
Best
Best Way
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There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
Maria Callas
Against
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Childhood
Children
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Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Also
Although
Arts
Away
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To be successful, you must first understand that you did not just happen; you were made. You are a high-tech product packaged to perform certain well-defined functions. Since no product determines its purpose, you cannot determine your purpose, you discover it
Faith Abiola Oyedepo
Successful
Happen
Happen
Perform
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There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs.
Neil Patrick Harris
Creativity
Gay
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Going
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Our mindset every day is a battle. If we have an inclusive culture everyone will be able to perform at their best,
Judy Dlamini
Mindset
Battle
Inclusive
Culture
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The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.
Nick Jonas
Always
Career
Learn
Matter
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I have really musical parents, and my dad was always encouraging, but the desire to get onstage and perform really did come from me. I'd never push my future children.
Nick Jonas
Always
Children
Come
Dad
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Pressure is always on if you don't perform. There is no question.
Niki Lauda
Always
NoQuestion
Perform
Pressure
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She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Fierce pleasure
Idea
Unwelcome truths
Shape performance
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As a married woman, you are under the authority of your husband. You are not a slave, but make sure you honour, befriend him and perform your marital roles so there won’t be any crisis.
Funke Felix-adejumo
Married woman
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
J.J. Abrams
Creature
I Love
Love
Movies
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If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
Norman Mailer
Becomes
Enough
Hands
He
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When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.
Patti Smith
About
Around
Books
Children
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I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.
Patton Oswalt
Able
Art
Before
Beginning
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A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.
Ellen G White
Christian
True humility
Gentleness
Christ
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I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?
Pauly Shore
Audience
Dictates
Feel
Get
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It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.
Isaac Newton
Apparent
Because
Bodies
Come
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My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.
Paul McCartney
Go
Kind
Lightly
Liverpool
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Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.
J. R. D. Tata
Hard Work
Quality
Attention
Efficiency
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Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.
Jack Kirby
Kind
Admire
Field
Performer
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My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.
Paula Abdul
Am
Because
Hardest
Job
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I've always viewed makeup as the gateway drug to animal activism. It really doesn't require any sacrificing or changing anything other than just replacing products that were once used to torture animals with ones that perform just as well and are cruelty-free.
Kat Von D
Activism
Always
Animal
Animals
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It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.
Pete Townshend
About
Back
Blowing
Bringing
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For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let the band go, in my heart. However, Roger Daltrey had other ideas. He would not let go.
Pete Townshend
Band
Did
Exist
Felt
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I don't view the fans in the way that most performers do. As a mass of people who have paid money, I know what they want. It's a very, very, very, very, very low common denominator.
Pete Townshend
Common
Denominator
Fans
Know
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My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor.
Peter Dinklage
Actor
Being
Brother
Family
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In your business or in your close relationships, if you want people to perform Herculean feats on your behalf, they must know that you care about them.
George Foreman
Business
Close relationship
People
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If performance management were a movie, it will become less 'Gladiator' and more 'Moneyball.'
Reid Hoffman
Become
Gladiator
Less
Management
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Our elected officials must understand that we, the American people, expect them to perform the duties of their office, even when that means working with other elected officia
Reid Hoffman
American
AmericanPeople
Different
Duties
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I've been performing since I was in high school, so I've seen people react to my music and my playing. I'm always appreciative when people like the music, but I'm not shocked.
Kenny G
Always
Appreciative
Been
High
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I think my craziest Hollywood moment was performing at the Grammys with Stevie Wonder.
Kevin Jonas
Craziest
Grammys
Hollywood
I Think
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I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places.
Kris Kristofferson
Attention
Focus
Honestly
I Can
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Ricky Martin
Bicycle
Day
Front
Neighborhood
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I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselves to go at it and have a good time. I think that's what I'm doing through music. It's not about 'I'm from here and you're from there.' It's about unity.
Ricky Martin
About
China
Delhi
Doing
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A hit is when you perform and people know the song. People like the song and can relate with it.
Skales
A hit
Perform
People know
Song
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I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.
Marilyn Manson
Front
Get
How
Kind
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Marilyn Manson
First
Musically
Performed
Threw
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You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.
Harvey Fierstein
Really
Love
Theater
Unmerciful life
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As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I'm still performing at 50, it's because I'll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them.
Robbie Williams
Because
Disastrous
Had
ICan
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One has to set high standards, I can never be happy with mediocre performance.
Patrice Motsepe
Set
High standards
Happy
Mediocre performance
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In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.
Luciano Pavarotti
Also
Any
Art
Command
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